If you've written much Streamlit code, you've likely run into a change to one piece of the state (very slowly) re-rendering every plot and table in your app. Is there any way to avoid this?
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Sunday, May 31, 2026
Monday, May 25, 2026
Pandas DataFrames offer a ton of ways to do the same things and it isn't always obvious to me which option is best. I went ahead and profiled some common situations to compare them.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Many of us take DNA tests or see loved ones suffer from dementia and wonder if there's anything we can do to lower our risk. It turns out that we can delay onset for years.
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Sunday, January 5, 2025
We all learn that the average of numbers is just their sum divided by their count, but where does that metric come from and why do we use it?
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Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Just wanted to try out a simple idea for visualizing where I spent my time. Each marker is centered at a location I spent at least 24 hours straight, and the marker size increases with the amount of time spent there.
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Friday, January 12, 2024
You might have heard of the 3n+1 problem at some point. It is pretty cool to visualize.
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Saturday, March 4, 2023
It's hard to get a sense of how much Nick Saban's Alabama teams are dominating compared with Bobby Bowden's FSU ones.
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Friday, July 1, 2022
Are you consistently losing to a 6 year old and looking for an excuse. If so, you've come to the right place.
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Monday, May 30, 2022
My son asked about a seemingly simple dice game and I didn't know how to
answer immediately. The question is:
Player 1 rolls a 6-sided die. Player 2 rolls a 6-sided die. If player 2 rolls the same as player 1, he rolls again. If he again rolls the same, he loses. How often will each player win?
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Player 1 rolls a 6-sided die. Player 2 rolls a 6-sided die. If player 2 rolls the same as player 1, he rolls again. If he again rolls the same, he loses. How often will each player win?
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
I had trouble finding (working) simple tutorials for running Node.js CRUD apps on AWS using Elastic Beanstalk so I wrote one from scratch and documented it.
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Sunday, October 24, 2021
What is the value of something like 101001 - 1101?
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Thursday, October 14, 2021
If you get a 10% raise, and inflation is 6%, did you actually get a raise?
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Saturday, October 2, 2021
Say you run 20 tests before and after a code change meant to speed up the code, but there's a lot of noise in your benchmarks. Some simple statistical tests can help you determine if you actually have an improvement in that noise.
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